Language

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Contents 1 Topics 2 Languages 3 Scientific findings 4 Learning foreign languages 4.1 Social network + language learning

Topics

• Evolution of language
• Language detection
• Language development
• Language of thought
• Linguistic relativity
• Machine translation
• Metaphor
• WALS

Languages

• English language

Scientific findings

• Unsupervised learning of natural languages
• science:Language Control in the Bilingual Brain
• Consonants tell us where words begin, what about vowels?
• science:Wired for Language

  patients with damage to the brain's arcuate fasciculus, which consists of multiple bundles of nerve fibers that connect Broca's and Wernicke's areas, have severe difficulty speaking and understanding others. And a number of recent studies suggest that the brains of humans are wired somewhat differently than those of other primates (Science, 2 March 2007, p. 1208 ).

• http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/11/revisiting_foxp2_and_the_origins_of_language.php

Learning foreign languages

• http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php
• http://freelanguage.org/
• http://www.internetpolyglot.com/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/

Social network + language learning

• http://lang-8.com/ - good.
• http://www.italki.com - good.

• http://www.babbel.com/
• http://www.busuu.com
• http://www.edufire.com
• http://www.lingueo.com
• http://www.livemocha.com/
• http://www.myngle.com/
• http://www.scuttlepad.com/
• http://togetherville.com/